Best Of

During holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 18-22, we’ll be taking a look back at 2017 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 25-29, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

We conclude our #BestOf 2017 with the best fun articles of the year.

1. Create Hilarious, Custom Merch With Bitmoji Swag

Bitmoji Swag isan online service allowing you to custom print your Bitmoji on cool pieces of merch, and the process is dead simple! Read more here.

2. Check Whether You Will Have A Robot Boss Anytime Soon

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) progresses, voices are raising about technology taking up human jobs: but don’t worry, if you want to check whether you will have a robot boss anytime soon, WillRobotBeMyBoss.com has you covered! Just type in your job title and discover your odds of ending up working for a bot. Learn more here.

3. Get The Best Of Twitter Printed On Beautiful Photobooks

140books is a collection of beautifully designed photobooks featuring the best tweets from celebrities of all horizons, from politics to entertainment & business, including: President Donald J. Trump, Kanye West & Paul Graham. Read our original story here.

If you enjoyed this selection, you can find similar articles in our fun section.

During holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 18-22, we’ll be taking a look back at 2017 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 25-29, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

Today’s part of our #BestOf 2017 is dedicated to our Top 3 “resources” of the year, and the least we can is that Facebook has been dominating this category!

3. Discover Growth Opportunities With The New Facebook IQ

Facebook IQ is Facebook’s research department and shares insights drawn from the platform’s two billion users’ activity & behavior: in order to make these insights even more accessible, Facebook launched earlier this year a new version of the portal.

If you enjoyed this selection, you can find similar articles in our resources section.

During holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 18-22, we’ll be taking a look back at 2017 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 25-29, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

Our #BestOf 2017 goes on with a selection of our Top 3 “Long Reads” of the year:

1. Explore Fred Cavazza’s 2017 Social Media Landscape

Fred Cavazza published the first version of his Social Media Landscape back in 2008. Here is the 2017 edition.

2. Make Creative Use Of Social Media

Two inspiring long reads including ideas to make creative use of social media, with 12 innovative digital formats and a proper way of misusing Facebook’s Ads Manager tool.

3. Acknowledge These Positive Social Media Evolutions

It’s no secret that change is hard, be it within a company, an industry or platforms used by millions — or even billions — of people: that being said, change is also good, and we want to feature today somepositive social media evolutions.

If you enjoyed this selection, you can find similar articles in our long reads section.

During holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 18-22, we’ll be taking a look back at 2017 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 25-29, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

Keeping on with our #BestOf 2017, here are the Top 3 data articles of the year.

1. What Happens In One Internet Minute In 2017

Just like every year now, Excelacom sums up what the Internet does in 60 seconds with its famous What happens in an Internet Minute infographic, 2017 edition: check it out here.

2.Facebook Hits The 2 Billion Users Mark

On June 27, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit the 2 billion users mark (no pun intended). This number basically means that almost 1 in 3 persons on the planet is a Facebook user. Read more here.

During holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 18-22, we’ll be taking a look back at 2017 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 25-29, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

Let’s start this #BestOf with our Top 3 tools of the year.

1. Plotagraph

Plotagraph is an incredible online tool that lets you animate static photographs and create hypnotic visual effects for your audience:

During holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 19-23, we’ll be taking a look back at 2016 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 26-30, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

During holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 19-23, we’ll be taking a look back at 2016 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 26-30, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

Today’s part of our #BestOf 2016 is dedicated to our Top 5 “tips” of the year.

1. Embed Twitter Timelines Without Coding Skills

Twitter introduced three new ways to embed Twitter timelines: two potentially reserved for developers — factory functions and the oEmbed API — and that does not require any coding skills: Twitter Publish.

2. Avoid Hashtags In Facebook Posts

3. Save Photos From Instagram With Instaport

Instaport is a simple way to download & save Instagram videos, pictures, and posts to your local hard drive.

4. Make The Most Of Facebook Pages To Watch

Pages to Watch is a powerful native Facebook native feature that allows you to get performances of other pages and benchmark these with your own. Of course, other brands and businesses can also watch your page, as long as you have more than 30 likes.

5. Make GIFs Even More Awesome With Giphy’s GIF Editor

Giphy’s GIF Editor is a great way to customize GIFs with stickers, effects and captions for your social channels.

If you enjoyed this selection, you can find similar articles in our tips section.

During holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 19-23, we’ll be taking a look back at 2016 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 26-30, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

Our #BestOf 2016 goes on with a selection of our Top 5 “Long Reads” of the year:

1. On The Trap Of Optimizing Facebook Campaigns For CPM

SocialCode Director of Ad Insights James Donner explains why you should not aim for lower CPM, which factors really affect CPM and how you can really optimize the ROI of your campaigns.

2. Get A Social Media Manager’s View On SEO

Dennis Yu SEO teaches how SEO works and why social media managers should care about it.

During Winter Holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 19-23, we’ll be taking a look back at 2016 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 26-30, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

Keeping on with our #BestOf 2016, here are the Top 5 data articles of the year.

1. The Six Degrees Of Separation Are Shrinking

Each person in the world used to be connected to every other person by an average of five other people: now, this number is down to three and a half (at least among the 1.59 billion people active on Facebook).

2. Facebook Daily Post Frequency

Facebook daily post frequency increased by 36% in 2015, according to a significant study led by Quintly, whose team analyzed more than 180,000 brand pages between January and December of last year.

During Winter Holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 19-23, we’ll be taking a look back at 2016 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 26-30, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

Let’s start this #BestOf with our Top 5 tools of the year.

1. Printerest

Printerest is a free Chrome extension that lets you print your Pinterest pins:

2. Compressor

Compressor is a free online service that help you reduce drastically the size of an image or a photo, whilst maintaining a high quality with almost no difference before and after compression.

3. Adobe Spark

Adobe Spark is a free online tool that makes it incredibly easy to create impactful social media visuals (as well as other forms of graphics).

4. Adobe Color CC (Formerly Adobe Kuler)

Adobe Color CC is a free online platform that allows you to build color combinations according to seven different color rules — Analogous, Monochromatic, Triad, Complementary, Compound, Shades and of course Custom — or from an existing picture.

5. Giphy Catpure

Giphy Capture is a small, simple and free Mac app that lets you create GIFs by capturing what’s on your screen, from web pages, to workflows and videos.

If you enjoyed this selection, you can find similar articles in our tools section.